The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-15
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


The earnings of the Chicago s. Eastern Illinois
for the first week Of March were $40, 600. against
$3o, 100 the same time last year-an increase of
$4, 835.
The B. g. O. Kankakee dispatch will continue /
to work out Of Chicago after the taking effect OF
the new law, notwithstanding reports to the con-
trary, pool or pool
Now it it stated that Cal Brice and Alfred
Suliy, who figured prominently In the BATH
more q Ohio deal, az loggerheads over the
miscarriage of their plans.
Ii all of the Atchison's schemes for railway |
building are materalized that company will have
300 miles of new track in Southern California
before the end of the present year.
President Clark, OF the Illinois Central de-
MES the report that his company is negotiathg
for the purchase Of the Wisconsin Central lines |
from Chicago to Ashland and ST. Paul
The Wabash main line from Toledo to Kansas |
City is to be thoroughly equipped and operated |
as a trunk line. 1t 10 expected that this means |
renewed activity in the companys shops at all
points.
The Boston Transcript says: 1t is thought in
Worcester that Jonas G.. Clark of that city will
be the successor of the late Estus Lamp, as pres
ident of the Providence & Worcester Railroad
Company.
The indianapolis & Vincennes will add three
first class ten-whee freight engines to it's equip
ment this week. Superintendent Mansfield will
then oe IN shape 70 handle his rapidly increasing
coal traffic readily.
1
at Worthiueton, has resigned to accept posi-
riop in the train dlspatcher's Office Of the Mis-
soui Pacific road. Indiana is sending out some
first-ciass neutrality-suspicious..
w. II. vandergrift, superintendent Of the Mil
waukee division of the NJ, L. 5. d w. road, IS
spending day or two with friends in the city.
He is much pleased with his position, and will
soon remove his family to Milwaukee.
In commenting on his recent railroad opera
tons, the Philadelphia Press says: "If Alfred
keeDS az he
isfacton of having canal-boat named for him
orof seeing his head carved on an 84-cent dol
lar"
The freight agents are receiving from Com
missioner Fink's Office the classi6cations,
which cover the roads east of the Mississippi
siver, north and south, and east and west. In
the six classiications, 4,416 articles are emu
inerated.
Passenger trains are making excellent time
The better condition of the roads has enabled
the superintendents to withdraw the order that
no lost time shall be made up, and occasionally
We hoar OF some very fast time on some OF the
Indianapolis lines.
The postal department pays the Pennsylvania,
the Vandalia and the Missouri Pacific big money
FOR running the fast mail train west and their
failure TO make time subjects them to a heavy
dne and there will be no relief from it unless it
Ii shown that any delay is unavoidable.
This is a field day with the employees on the
c., l., St l.. g. c., as Paymaster Sullivan starts
on his monthly rounds, paying for February,
and the boys who are fortunate enough to own
some of the stock, and there quite a num-
Der, will today receive II per cent dividend
A special meeting Of the Missouri Pacific Rail
road Company has been called by its president,
Jay Gould, for the purpose of increasing its CAP
itaf stock So 00O 900 and its bonded Indebtedness
$4,000. 000 This will keep the dividends of
this handsome property within 10 per cent p err
annum The meeting occurs May 10.
The through trains on the L.. N A. & G. road
will in few weeks be equipped entire with new
lila ~
coaches will be put in use in their excursion
business, which, during the summer months, to
Cedar.Lake and other points on the road, reaches
large proportions and really is limited by the
passenger cars they can command.
Parties behind new railroad projects in this
State who are asking for subsidies from town
ships scattered over the State through which it
Is proposed to build the new roads find 1t rather
uphill work. There is a growing feeling that if
a road is ueeded there are capitalists who
ready to build it without taxing townships. The
lessons Of years past have not been fully forgot
ten yet.
,Asarhitrstnr Of the Central Trae.s Associa-
= ton " T. Malott is likely TO have some knotty
questions come before him, his decision will
be inal on all questions of dispute arising in the
settlement of the ten or more pools in the asso
citation, in which some fifty roads are interested.
If anyone has idea that it was simply COM
pliment to Mr.. Malott selecting him for the posi-
ton, they are mistaken.
Passenger circlee are somewhat disturbed over
rumOr that one or the strong lines Is employ
ing persons connected with theatrical troupes to
act as their agents, and in return arranging
to pass such parties free over their lines under
the guise that they are employees of the road
1t gems hardly probable that any road which
claims to be firstclass road will resort to any
such dishonorable methods of doing business.
"Great consultations and concentrations of
power one of which is announced every week.
If not every day. says the Boston Advertiser.
'raise the question whether we are not again in
Mating the balloon of paper prosperity to the
bursting point. What is to be the end of it ala
Population is not increased by annexing city
TO another. Railroads not made more pro-
ductive by converting vast miIeages into 'sys-
TENS"
1t is two years to-day since the l., B. & w.
people threw up their lease of the l., D. & S.
road, ard what is strange, both parties think. or
so express themselves. that it was fortunate for
their respective interests that such action was
taken. Certainly the management of the l.. D.
e s. road have reason to congratulate them
selves the result thus far, the earnings
have been increased 80 per cent, and the
physical condition of the property improved SO
per cent
Among the Western roads an agreement has
been substantially reached on the free pass ques
ton that where assurances are given that free
transportation is TO be used wholly within one
State, and not as part of a interstate journey
passes shall be issued at the discretion of the
roads. The arrangement whereby indefinite
amount of transportation has been given tC
newspapers in exchange for an indefinite amount
of advertising will be done away with and spe
cifc contracts substituted The Eastern roads
SIRE said to favor l,000mile ticket to be given in
Eeturn for a fixed amount of advertising
c. e. Henderson, general manager, has jus,
made careful inspection of the Peoria division
of the l., B. & W., and he returns more thar
pleased with the condition Of the road bed
Within the last few months some thirty miles OF
new steel has been put in, and liberal distribu
tion of new cross-ties, and this has greatly i'm
proved the physical condition of this division
and enables the trainmen to make as good time
as is made on any roads in the West and with